Gotta Be Done - A Bluey Podcast
Two Melbourne mums obsessed with the Australian juggernaut Bluey, discussing the show episode by episode since 2019.
Episodes
BONUS EP (We're BACK IN THE LIBRARY!)
It was November 2021 that Bluey episode Promises first put Kate and Mary in the library... and now, the Library dogs are back baby! (Or perhaps they never left?)
Bluey's Library is the latest interactive offering at bluey.tv, and it's a brilliant combination of books, stories, play, and choose-your-own-adventure. And Gotta Be Done gets a starring role guiding you through!
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BONUS EPISODE (Playdate Psychology with Dr Martha Deiros Collado!)
"Kids are playful beings. You will build a better relationship with your kids the more playful you are."
Clinical psychologist and author Dr Martha Deiros Collado has built a career helping kids and families.
A devoted Bluey fan, she's also done research with BBC Studios to understand how playdates help kids, and fit in family life... with some seriously Bluey-related results.
Dr Martha joins M
Slide (aka Ensemble Recorders are the Reason)
You can solve all the problems of the world, and someone will still shout "I don't know what that is!" Enter the Big Blue Guy, and Slide!
Kate and Mary wonder if Bingo and Lila's commitment to bug wellbeing is the balm our belligerent world needs right now (although Mary admits they're feeding snails to chooks at her place, so maybe she's contributing to warlike behaviour?)
Plus proliferation o
Show and Tell (aka We're the Ones Taking the Orders!)
Like a surf board resolution after a summer holiday, Gotta Be Done is back baby! (And honestly, what's a resolution that hasn't been recycled a few times?!)
Show and Tell takes Mary and Kate on a sat-nav-less route from shark-punches and traumatising orca attacks to Facebook Marketplace friends and cautionary tales for course correction... if Statue World doesn't get you first!
Plus the still-looo
BONUS EP (Yup Yup Yup Yup Burger Dog/ Daniel O'Brien!)
So the Sleepytime score is FINALLY available for our global listening bliss. It's the second single from the whole new Bluey album Up Here, out worldwide on 27 March 2026 and featuring the Queensland Symphony Orchestra and Camerata – Queensland Chamber Orchestra... and all our Bluey music favourites!
But did you know, before any of that, Burger Dog was the feelgood hit of mid-2025?!
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Stickbird (aka Don't Have Answers, Just Trauma)
From Moana moments on standup paddle boards, to the pipecleaners of the natural world, Lake Currimundi on Queensland's Sunshine Coast has something for everyone - even Stickbirds!
Kate and Mary are back and asking the big questions: some universal (what's bugging Bandit?) and some extremely niche (when will Chilli reinvent herself as an Olympic coach??) And some ridiculous, like is Stickbird wea
Relax (aka Three Seasons and a Movie!)
It’s the biggest week of Bluey news since… big screens! But the path to Bluey the Movie has been paved with burnout and mental load – or is that just Kate and Mary trying to prepare for Christmas?
First up, here’s Joe Brumm’s letter that accompanied the Bluey feature film announcement... no advice yet on how to wait until 2027!
Then, is there a way to relax amidst the relentless demands of parenti
Space (aka We've Needed Some!)
It's been a long time between galaxies for an honest-to-goodness Gotta Be Done recap - but Kate and Mary didn't disappear into a black hole (of parenting) for ever, just for about a year.
Space is the mind-bending Bluey episode that brings them back, ready to fix things and figure everything out. But are they chief scientists enough?
Plus, radical candor, space destinations in Adelaide and Parkes
BONUS EP (Bluey's World x Bluey's Brisbane x producer Andrew Kay!)
When Kate and Mary from Gotta Be Done and Lou from Bluey's Brisbane sneak along to the opening day of Bluey's World, it's not going to be a subtle affair.
And this epic crossover chat, just outside the new Sunshine State landmark/ destination/ (other) happiest place on earth, was next level excitable. It even prompted Bluey's World and Bluey's Big Play producer Andrew Kay to join the fun!
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BONUS EP (Our Rug Island Era and JOFF BUSH!)
Skip out on work and bring your connector pens - it's RUG ISLAND DAY!
The THIRD album from Bluey maestro Joff Bush and his glorious music team is out globally today (25 October 2024) wherever you get your music (and even on vinyl!)
So of course Mary and Kate were going to drag out the wagon and skive off work Bandit-style, to ask Joff about how this journey into playful imagination came together
Gotta Be Done's Mary with Bluey's Brisbane at the Markets!
So it's been a while, but when one half of Gotta Be Done sneaks up into Blueyland/ Brisbane... podcast magic happens!
Mary caught up with Justin and Lou from Bluey's Brisbane for this fun and frenetic crossover episode, on the for-real-life location of iconic Bluey ep Markets (the West End Markets, every Saturday at Davies Park!)
Now in their fourth year of exploring the real life world of our f
BONUS EP (Looking for signs with Joe Brumm)
Did you know it took nearly two years from Ludo Studio putting finishing touches on The Sign, to actually getting that biggest ever Bluey episode onto our screens??
So really, the fact that Kate and Mary interviewed Bluey creator Joe Brumm after the The Sign dropped on Sunday, and now you're getting the episode on Wednesday - pretty quick turnaround!
Joe is back in the wagon to talk through his f
Gotta Be Done's Mary does TONTS!
So Gotta Be Done has been missing in your podcast feed for a bit (and you better believe Mary and Kate are missing it too!)
But of course they haven't stopped talking about Bluey in any/every other aspect of their lives, and for this special crossover, Mary talks about Bluey A LOT. Thank you TONTS host Claire Tonti for sharing the mic, over to her to explain!
In a very special episode of TONTS. I
BONUS EP (Play, Development, and the Importance of Being Bingo)
It's not often an episode of Gotte Be Done has required reading... but when there's three developmental scientists putting Bluey under the microscope, then of course we're all diving in!
Mary's joined in the wagon by Dr Molly Scott, Research Scientist in Playful Learning at Temple University, Aria Gastón-Panthaki, Research Coordinator for Children's Development at Harvard University, and Doug Pip
BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done Back and Bluey Fest!)
Gotta Be Done's been on a break, but Mary and Kate just couldn't keep mum for BLUEY FEST! (For international types, that's the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's celebration of five years since Bluey launched... and the top 100 episodes as voted by Australia!)
So, the girls have got the somewhat-broken-down wagon back together, for a lap through the trials of trying to pick top five episodes, t
Pizza Girls (aka We’ve Covered a Lot of Pizza Feelings)
Recently listener Matthew in London emailed Gotta Be Done to ask when the Pizza Girls recap was coming. And Mary and Kate laughed because they'd totally recorded that back in February 2023... and then stopped laughing, because Mary had forgotten to release it.
So, strap yourselves in kid, for all the late-summer reminiscing, fresh-new-year-misty-eyed-ness... and Muffin dropping the clutch and dri
Cricket II (aka It’s Gonna Take More than a Tea Towel)
Yep, Gotta Be Done is still talking about Cricket... in this second-half recap, and in Mary and Kate's for real life generally!
More music, more obscure cricketenalia, more Rusty love, and the tightrope walk of encouraging your kids without overwhelming them (that Rusty's Dad makes look easy!)
Plus, a good guess at when Australia might see the last of Season 3's new episodes... if Gotta Be Done is
Cricket I (aka How Many Innings Will This Take and Also What’s an Innings?)
It's more than a year since Bluey creator Joe Brumm told Gotta Be Done a cricket episode was coming... which is even longer than the average game of cricket!
Kate (vessel of cricketing knowledge) and Mary (cricketing knowledge vacuum) explore the whys and wherefores of the deeply weird (but supremely strategic) game of cricket. And how the never-ending, convoluted, global obsession impacts a chil
Smoochy Kiss (aka Maybe That’s the Fairytale and This Is the Reality)
So Gotta Be Done isn't here to call out annoying habits - but if Smoochy Kiss goes there, do Mary and Kate maybe kind of have to?!
From what (on earth) Bandit's doing in his first scene, to best kitchen weaponry that's not too weapony (and how saucepan lids pre-date shields, actually?!), crimes against laundry sinks, boxes big enough for grown-ups, inversion and flipping the chase (music), and whe
Dirt (aka Need a Redemption Arc in Our Lives)
Gotta Be Done is back after a break, and redeeming oneself is the theme of this recap - in all the ways. Morning, Wendy!
Memories of mud piles and doubts about overly-clean modern life (is Insta to blame??), and is that dirt under fingernails, or potential neural connections?
Oh, and what IS a chow chow? Well if a dog and a lion had a very adorable baby... that's Wendy and Judo!
Also, parents m
VINTAGE GOTTA BE DONE: The Show (aka Advice for the Ages)
CONTENT WARNING: In this episode, Mary and Kate talk pregnancy loss, infertility, and grief... and life in lockdown, because this is a 2020 throwback. It can get heavy.
Bluey is known for tackling big issues - and in 2023 we know there's definitely a miscarriage storyline in The Show. (Back then and now, there's still plenty of hope, hilarity and happiness to take from this gorgeous episode too
Onesies (aka Getting People Up to Speed on Kid Chaos)
Content warning: This episode of Gotta Be Done covers topics around fertility, pregnancy loss and grief.
Onesies broke hearts and healed them again, and Mary and Kate wade into "the messy middle" to work out how.
In summary: Families are hard, children who have complaints about the presents they receive are annoying but predictable, incredible Australian actor Rose Byrne (who plays Brandy!) is l
Granny Mobile (aka Muffin’s Shiny New Career as a Hostage Negotiator)
Gotta Be Done loves doing the slow crawl past a garage sale, and Granny Mobile brings more Bluey delights than a giant bargain table!
Mary and Kate talk the endless possibilities for types of grannies (nobody puts granny in a corner!), the Muffin redemption arc (can toddlers really grow out of their tantrums?!), and weapon-of-mass-destruction qualities of a Glomesh handbag.
Plus the historical d
Exercise (aka Personal Fulfilment at Work, Not Just a Unit of Production)
It's the episode that launched a thousand hot takes, and Gotta Be Done is finally here with a slightly reheated one!
Kate and Mary recorded their Exercise recap before ABC and Ludo re-released an updated episode, then recorded more again after the fact - so get ready for many, many thoughts about the challenges of exercising, the niceness (or otherwise) of bosses, and the fact that kids really do
Turtle Boy (aka Kids TV Dichotomy of Preachy or Mindless Violence)
Gotta Be Done has confessions to go with Turtle Boy - Mary and Kate have both let their kids take lost toys home. Can this episode undo the damage? Lucky the childhood magic of a park never changes (captured by Rafferty Amor)!
Also, are all kids shows either preachy or mindless violence? (No, some have songs about physics and structural engineering!)
Big thanks to episode sponsors mathsonline.com
BONUS EP (Rich J Labels on Everything!)
He's the all-knowing and all-seeing Series Director of Bluey, and Richard Jeffery has all the panicked 4am wake-ups to prove it!
Rich/ Rich J from the Fairytale 80s montage/ Mackenzie's Dad/ RichWOW jumps in the Gotta Be Done wagon to share his Bluey origin story, what director life actually involves, and the true state of Aussie-Kiwi relations behind the scenes at Ludo Studio ("we don't jump on s
BONUS EP (Jazz and Joff in Dance Mode!)
"Finally I've got an outlet for what I'm really good at, that is: singing like a cat."
There's no shortage of surprises on the new Bluey album Dance Mode out worldwide TODAY - and Joff Bush's feline finesse is high on the list!
Bluey music legends Joff (famously the voice of Cat Squad) and Jazz D'Arcy (famously the singer/songwriter behind Rain/Boldly in the Pretend) jump in the Gotta Be Done wag
Puppets (aka Do We Know the Meaning of Life Yet?)
How's it goin', salad dodgers?! Whether you've been dodging salad or not, you might want to know why that's a shout-out to the original Bluey pilot (now leaked!) - and Gotta Be Done wouldn't mind advice on ending the salad dodging by obstinate kiddos, also?
Puppets has bigger issues than salad to dodge though - and of course Mary and Kate dive straight in! From voicing your children's toys to who'
BONUS EP (Taking Bluey Global with BBC’s Kate O’Connor)
She's played keepy uppy on the stage of Madison Square Garden, floated down Sixth Avenue, and beamed into millions of homes around the globe on the daily - but strap yourselves in kids, Bluey's only getting bigger!
And trying to wrangle the worldwide juggernaut and unstoppable tsunami of Bluey partnership requests is BBC Head of Brands and Licensing (ANZ), Kate O'Connor.
BBC Kate jumps in the Got
Fairytale (aka An Accurate Historical Document)
It's the Heeler history we all need to believe in, and Gotta Be Done is fact-checking and fetishising every glorious 80s moment!
From montages to hazy memories, violent consequences of jinxes and whether child discipline should be depicted for historical purposes, Mary and Kate have a fairytale's worth of half-baked theories.
Also, this Fairytale poster by Bluey animator Mark Paterson, art dire
VINTAGE GOTTA BE DONE: (Gotta Be Done x The Hammerbarn Project vs Bluey the Album!)
So it's ONE MONTH until the new Bluey album lands - who likes to Dance Mode?! (And second single, the Rain score WITH JAZZ D'ARCY'S LYRICS is dropping on streaming services TODAY, make sure you are following Bluey to hear it!)
Of course Gotta Be Done can't wait to talk about piece of musical gloriousness (out globally 21 April 2023!), but while we wait, we're going back in time to when we deep-di
Faceytalk (aka Not Just One Baked Good But Two!)
Are you triggered by time outs? What about televisual content that recreates pandemic lockdown conditions? Unequal distribution of parenting? Or the sight/ thought/ mention of people/ dogs on the toilet?
Well, dial in and get ready for Muffin (Cupcake) Heeler levels of outrage - because Gotta Be Done goes there!
So who are the villains when parenting is being hogged? (Inequitable kids!) What are
Tina (aka And Yet, And Yet...)
Nice to meet you Tina... or should Mary and Kate say, SEASON 3'S ASPARAGUS?!
Okay so three years on Gotta Be Done has come to the party (animals) of their previously least-favourite Bluey. But what happens when there's another contender??
Tina sparks questions about giving kids responsibilities, rights, riot permission, plus the weaponising of toilet hands and commentary on large ladies.
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BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done x Mums Work & Chaos)
We know Bluey is beloved/imitated/talked about the world over.
So when a British mum, talking on a podcast, and channelling all the Bluey in her parenting, suggests a chat - well, it's gotta be done!
Louise Salih is a mum of three and the host of new podcast Mums Work & Chaos. Strap yourselves in kids for plenty of great questions for Gotta Be Done's Mary on this fun cross-over ep. There's furi
Ragdoll (aka 10 Bucks Lying Around?! Clearly Happened Before Inflation Crisis!)
It was a break that threw up more than a few roadblocks... but at Gotta Be Done, obstacles don't block the path, they are the path!
So Kate and Mary are back, maybe not with a lot of newfound wisdom, but would reading/ swallowing a Little Book of Calm help?
Plus, money-hungry children, force-feeding good qualities or modelling quads, and the gloriousness of Wendy. Remember, great works are perfo
BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done does Pub Trivia Expereience ft Two Bandits Watching Bluey!)
So Gotta Be Done has been gone too long, but don't think for a second that Mary and Kate have stopped talking about Bluey!
Thanks so much to amazing Tim at Pub Trivia Experience who hosted Gotta Be Done (original Bluey recap podcast) AND Two Bandits Watching Bluey (original upstate New York recap podcast!) for an epic Bluey showdown!
There's musical mysteries, trifficult title cards, character co
BONUS EP (aka Jazz D’arcy Makes Music Magic)
It's the final Gotta Be Done for 2022, and Mary and Kate are wrapping up in musical style, and on the beat!
Jazz D'Arcy has been a composer, musician and music assistant on Bluey since the beginning, and is a key part of the chart-topping, award-winning gloriousness that is Bluey music! And she's in the wagon to share her Bluey-esque musical origins, and some of the secrets behind scoring the beau
Explorers (aka Stealing Seats in Cafes When They’re Not Lost in the Glass House Mountains)
So Gotta Be Done doesn't need a tourism campaign to tell them Queensland's Glass House Mountains are beautiful/ in Australia... but did tourism dollars help get this Explorers episode to where it was going?
Mary and Kate analyse Jack's Dad/ Hamish Blake's career, ambassadorships and performance (and also his excellent new podcast How Other Dads Dad - lots of Bluey chat on Nazeem Hussain ep!)
Plus,
BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done x Bluey’s Brisbane in Blueyland!)
So, Mary went to Brisbane. You might not be as excited about that as she was, but luckily Bluey's Brisbane duo Lou and Justin were just as excited!
And while this crossover is not quite a Bluey tour of Brisbane - as Lou points out, not many Bluey episodes happen at night! - it's a comprehensive tour of three Bluey-obsessed heads, via plenty of places in Brisbane that everyone should want to go! O
Chest (aka May Have Missed the Child Prodigy Boat)
First things first, when is the right time to teach your kids anything - and is it too late for Kate and Mary to chess master it up?
Gotta Be Done dives into the Breneness of looking after hearts, and the Unicorsiness of low-key undermining of your partner's efforts.
Plus, the woodwork carving out a place in Bluey fans' hearts! Enjoy (and please remember you're not dead, you're at a pool party!)
Tradies (aka Ironic Plumber’s Crack, Despite the Big Belt)
Big belts, big heroes of Australian comedy, big plumber's crack - Tradies delivers plenty of big Bluey moments!
Mary and Kate explain tradies, sparkies and chippies for the non-Aussie audience, and find Brene moments in talking to your enemies with defences down. Also ice cream, and the Australian feel-good drama waiting to happen (Leigh Sales, call Gotta Be Done!)
Plus, the extremely confusing Bl
Rain (aka Sometimes Saying Nothing Says the Most, But Probably Not on a Podcast)
It's the Bluey episode that started in the gutter, but now all of us are looking up at the double rainbows.
Rain has so much meaning for Kate and co - and especially in a week where rain and memories are coming down hard.
There's also (Mary butchering) the Serenity Prayer, the double rainbow meme (what does it mean?!), Oscar-winning Balance that wordlessly inspired this episode, and its link to
Magic (aka The Couch Is Cursed and You Shall Never Lie There)
Is Magic powerful, or is magic just power? Either way it comes with great responsibility... and plenty of other half-baked film connection theories, courtesy of Gotta Be Done!
Mary's asking how much magic/power/autonomy you can give Bluey/ a six-year-old/ her six-year-old specifically, while Kate's taking it back to ancient Grecian agoras to wonder what magic ethos, pathos and logos can deliver.
Driving (aka Phone Handy in Case the Game Gets Boring)
Parents are used to having plenty of purpose, but Gotta Be Done wonders about the bored side-effects of the busy.
Also, Driving takes Kate and Mary to wild workplaces where staplers are tied down, bangers in the Blueyverse and beyond (like Lollipop Lollipop in Dance Mode Bluey!), and the cats that pee/ scratch/ are the embodiment of evil in a dogs' world.
Oh, and spoiler alert - it's gonna take
Sheep Dog (aka If Fish Mullets Had Hair It Would Probably Be Long at the Back?)
No doubt Sheep Dog contains important lessons, but is this Bluey at its most simplistic? (Context, text and subtext: Mums just need 20 minutes, dammit!)
Kate and Mary wonder what needs more explaining, mullets or shearers (and wonder if there's cutting-room-floor tape of Lucky's Dad singing Click Go the Shears??), delight in the Wendy redemption arc, and get excited about new voice Emily Taheny (j
Stories (aka Didn’t Know So Many Horses in Australia Were American!)
“We are the stories we tell ourselves."
There's a lot for Gotta Be Done to unpack about Stories, both Indy and Winton's, and Kate and Mary's!
Plus their desperate attempt to be across all the pop culture references within ("we're not very good"), a detour into Lin Manuel Miranda/ David Bowie crossover, and exactly what belongs on Old McDonald's Farm.
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BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done x Aussie Girl Margie)
Gotta Be Done goes beyond the audio this week - with the superstar of YouTube, Aussie Girl Margie!
The effervescent Australian-mum-living-in-the-US has been making fun-filled Bluey content for a year, and shares her screen with Mary in this big chat!
From the stars that aligned for Mary and Kate's Promises roles, to the intricacies of censoring Bluey, and whether there really is a wedding still to
VINTAGE GOTTA BE DONE: Family Meeting (aka Where’s My Wooden Spoon?)
It's the episode that made Disney decree farts aren't funny - or maybe are too funny for under-5s?! Look, who knows how that Mouse's mind works! But word is Disney is revisiting the decision - so Mary and Kate are revisting their recap!
So, how do kids/ pups inherently know what wooden spoon are used for, if they've never seen them used for that purpose?
That and so many more questions for the w
Musical Statues (aka OMG I Just Realised They’re Playing Musical Statues)
Sorry rest of world, Gotta Be Done is sneaking ahead of you again, to recap the first of the Australian-only-so-far episodes - and honestly, Musical Statues is the mood-lift we all need! (Thanks Bluey Season 3 Part 2A.)
Mary and Kate talk the right time for protein powder, Pulp Fiction-inspired dance moves, whether Bandit really hit Brisbane's dance floors with his worm in the "glory days", and of
Curry Quest (aka Layers of Coping Strategies We Need in Our Lives)
What is a Curry Quest/ Campbellian Monomyth/ Peshwari Naan/ good approach for breaking bad news to kids?
Gotta Be Done asks all those questions and more - the only sure answer, Mary and Kate want Chilli narrating life for all of us!
(Oh and lots of love for Our Flag Means Death and Only Murders in the Building too, and this dissertation from Dr Bandit Heeler!)
Grrrrrrr!
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VINTAGE GOTTA BE DONE: Bedroom (aka The Girls Are Getting Extremely Good at Drawing)
So Bluey Season 3 has finally reached the rest of the world, and Gotta Be Done is giving you global Bluey devotees a week to catch up/ process/ binge a certain podcast. You're welcome!
This recap first dropped in December 2021, just as Australia got S3, and Kate and Mary weren't crying, you were crying. (Clearly everyone was crying - and now the rest of the world is too!)
Bedroom seems to answer
BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done x The Hammerbarn Project FREE RANGE!)
Gotta Be Done and The Hammerbarn Project have covered Bluey the Album, but there's still so so much to talk about - so they do!
From podcast team back stories to how anyone ever parented pre-Bluey (did they really??), a rapid-fire round that's anything but, and picking the ultimate bit of Hammerbarn (is that even possible??) Plus, the most momentous merde moments of Bluey... there's a few!
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BONUS EP (Gotta Be Done x The Hammerbarn Project vs Bluey the Album!)
Did you know that Gotta Be Done is NOT the only podcast that religiously recaps episodes of Bluey?
The lads from The Hammerbarn Project burst onto the podwaves last year, and are bringing some brilliantly (beautifully!) blokey perspective to our favourite family of Heelers - with puns and power tools galore!
Frank, Marty and Brendan jump in the wagon with Kate and Mary for fun and frenetic crosso
Pavlova (aka Up Here for Bibliothèque-ing, Down There for Discothèque-ing)
Zut alors! We has emerged!
Gotta Be Done does Pavlova and wonders if the French language even exists beyond the bits you learn from kids cartoons. But what would the Blueyverse's French folks (frog dogs?) make of Bandit's impression? (Or of Flight of the Conchords or Greg Champion, for that matter?) Better than Pepé Le Pew, surely!
Also, no shortage of Brene moments when you're playing the long ga
Whale Watching (aka Be Motivated By Spite Not Guilt)
So Gotta Be Done has finally left the couch (HA!) and is back to the recapping, but moving slowly and avoiding loud noises, a bit like Whale Watching!
It's the Bluey episode that proves Bandit and Chilli occasionally get on the sauce, but Mary and Kate want to know who's paying harder for their hedonism?
Also, nautical-themed games that let you stay still, a sailor's hornpipe that doesn't, corn ch
BONUS EP (aka Joe Brumm III: THE DECIDER!)
So we did a Grandpa Bob and disappeared for a bit, but Gotta Be Done is BACK BABY - and for the best possible reason!
Joe Brumm joins Kate and Mary on the mic, with a ton of Bluey S3 secrets to share.
So, which TV heroes was Joe most excited to meet at the Logies? Who was the voice of Major Tom before Lin Manuel Miranda neighed his way in? What period piece inspired the music for Seesaw (we strug
Mini Bluey (aka Just Be in the Moment and Hug the Wombat)
A slight technical glitch to start this Mini Bluey recap - but are lost library books and non-compliant noisy children just technical glitches too?
Gotta Be Done wonders what constitutes weird in on-toast combos (Bingo toast, anyone?), and whether anyone can know themselves and all their annoying ways as honestly as Bluey does. (Reckon Ted Lasso would give it a go - here's his Patience rendition!)
Obstacle Course (aka Mel Gibson and the One Who’s Not Mel Gibson)
Are kids bad losers, or do they just have keenly developed senses of injustice? In Obstacle Course, Bluey is a bit of each - and at Kate and Mary's places, it's definitely one or the other!
Meanwhile, what movies do you see in the montage? Kate's done the research, while Mary has to admit Gallipoli and Kokoda are not the same.
And why do our Gotta Be Done girls, like Bandit/ every parent, always
Born Yesterday (aka Glittering Star Cameos of Bluey Season 3... and also Eva Mendez)
Gotta Be Done wasn't born yesterday, but who else thinks a fresh start on life on earth might not go astray right now?
Of course, Mary and Kate and everyone else would still need the wisdom of Bluey and Bingo to guide us through - and even if we can't start fresh, there's plenty of goodness to work with in this leafy gem.
Plus, stealth plans to grow indoor gardens, a Bible verse, and will a Twitt
Housework (aka Who Even Cleans Windows?)
From Chilli's first line for the ages (oh man, Gotta Be Done is just not a fan of housework either babe!), Housework is a joy that does not usually come with housework!
There's the playful Fab Four, the interminable demands of Lego Batman, and detailed instructions for making a toy car wash - oh, and plenty of Bluey wisdom for life.
Plus, the perils of looking too closely at the contents of your
Phones (aka You Can’t Call Millennials on the Phone)
Ring ring, ring ring? Hello, this is Kate and Mary showing their age by actually picking up the phone - but will the next generation even know what that is?
Phones and Grandad Mort's visit have Gotta Be Done wondering about the right hand signal for a smartphone, what's next for Emma Wiggle, and is tech the source of all the world's problems. So yeah, just all the big questions!
Also, what are cur
Family Meeting (aka Where’s My Wooden Spoon?)
How do kids/ pups inherently know what wooden spoon are used for, if they've never seen them used for that purpose?
That and so many more questions for the witnesses in this rollicking courtroom drama, as Gotta Be Done calls a Family Meeting.
But the biggest question: When is it okay to laugh at a fluffy?
Well, it's hard not to!
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BONUS EP (The Heeler House For Real Life!)
So unless Muffin Cupcake Heeler has dropped your phone in the pool, you've probably heard that Bluey's house got listed on Airbnb!
After Gotta Be Done tried and failed to take up permanent residence, Mary got to go behind the scenes from a distance, with amazing designer to the Heelers, Yvette Turnbull.
The creative Queenslander has worked with Airbnb, BBC Studios and Ludo to bring the beloved h
Pass the Parcel (aka Birthday Party Invitees Convenient for the Purposes of This Episode)
Is Pass the Parcel the most controversial episode of Bluey yet? The clickbait stories would suggest so, but Gotta Be Done is seeing plenty of Brené nuance falling out at every layer!
From tradies and their dexterity to concert pianist rock stars, birthday party expectations to English county fairs, and of course where the hell we're meant to get resilience and empathy, Mary and Kate take this rec
Unicorse (aka All the Things You Don’t Want Your Kids to Throw Back at You)
Sooooo Unicorse might be the most annoying unicorn in the world, but can the same be said for this episode?
Mary and Kate grit their collective chompers and go deep into the psyche of unicorns/ eunuch-horses, mullets with the sides shaved, leather bedding, annoying people, and meetings that should have been emails ("AAAAAAND WHY SHOULD I CARE?!")
It's equal parts disturbing and cathartic, and tha
Omelette (aka Kitchen Parameters That Ensure Mostly Success)
(Birthday) cards on the table - the Gotta Be Done girls do not mind a bit of mess. But do Mary and Kate draw the line at Omelette?
From managing kitchen chaos (and potential hangriness) and 10,000 hours to perfect egg-cracking, to the Bluey-Brene imperative to own your mistakes, and the dubious delights of breakfast in bed - it's triggering stuff for our two (likely hangry) hosts.
So as Bingo c
Promises (aka The Joy of Disembodied Eyebrows)
Gotta Be Done is BACK baby (hello 2022!), and Kate and Mary are settling in for their LONGEST-EVER RECAP. How can they justify more time on Promises than even Sleepytime scored? The answer's in the library...
Strap yourself in for the trouble with trampoleneums, when bribes become promises, Meryl Streep toddlers, and the most over-analysed two-sentence cameos in the history of entertainment. We p
BONUS EP (Melanie Zanetti Is BACK!)
So 26 episodes of Bluey S3 are now out in the ABC iView wilds - where did those weeks go??
Anyway, five minutes ago when they'd just started dropping, Mary snuck in a quick chat with Chilli herself Melanie Zanetti!
The Brisbane star had plenty to share about her frenetic year of recording Bluey everywhere from LA to Florence, in between filming romance and horror and even saving the planet! Also,
Bedroom (aka The Girls Are Getting Extremely Good at Drawing)
Gotta Be Done is back to recaps, and they're not crying, you're crying. (Clearly everyone is crying.)
Bedroom seems to answer some longstanding Blueyverse questions (or does it, Grandpa Bob wherever you are?) and has Kate and Mary wondering how many babies is the right number (and also, why cots have teeth marks?)
Plus the importance of persisting with drawing for successful communication, and how
BONUS EP (aka Alternative Energy/Indie Folk Purveyor, Darren Hanlon!)
Did you know that when Ludo Studio was developing early Bluey episodes, the animatics featured Darren Hanlon songs as holding scores?
Gotta Be Done has never seen them (ahem, we'd love to!) but now Gympie's favourite folk troubadour has an official Bluey gig too - as the Alt Energy Dog in S3 episode Sheep Dog!
Darren joins Mary in the Gotta Be Done wagon to talk Queensland's biggest cultural expo
BONUS EP (aka It‘s DAD!!)
New Bluey means Gotta Be Done has new excuses to sneak behind the scenes - and finally, Kate and Mary have bumped into Bandit/ Dave McCormack!
This frenetic chat reveals that Dave has now been part of 153 episodes of Bluey (and is still recording as Season 3 hits our screens!), that Sydney's lockdown had him deeply considering a mullet, and that he still doesn't consider himself a real actor. (Wou
Perfect (aka We‘re Back and Perfect, Right?!)
Gotta Be Done gets recapping this Father's Day Bluey - better late than never, and better done than perfect, right??
Kate and Mary talk preschooler drawing persistence, and what press-ganging your little people into card production actually delivers.
Also, do the girls have enough Indy smarts to sustain this podcast? (Mary's assertion that the boulder scene is from Temple of Doom suggests not. Um
BONUS EP (Season 3 Is Coming and We‘re Already Here!)
It's been a long time between episodes/Stumpfest juices for Gotta Be Done, but with Bluey Season 3 right on our doorstep* - of course Kate and Mary are here to play!
Yep, there's 25 new episodes of Bluey hitting ABC TV from Monday 22 November, and the self-confessed superfans are here to tell you what they know about them. Well, what they think they know/ are able to tell you without breaking any
BONUS EP (On Tour with Bluey‘s Brisbane)
We're back in the wagon (and still in lockdown!), but a couple of sunshiny guests are just what Mary and Kate ordered to brighten things up!
This special episode welcomes fellow Bluey podcasters Lou Bromley and Justin Rouillon from Bluey's Brisbane - the podcast that shows off for real life Brisbane, and all the hangouts of our favourite Heelers!
From road trips and live music haunts back when w
Baby Race (aka Try to Stop Us Talking about Bluey!)
Baby Race takes Gotta Be Done back to those early days of parenting - and wow, IT IS A LOT.
Kate and Mary talk milestones, leaps, and Mercury retrogrades - is this stuff all deliberately confusing? And when are we meant to put honey on dummies/ peanut butter on spoons/ oil on knees??
Plus why Leigh Sales was the perfect person to be Coco's Mum, whether parenting/life has to mean uncertainty, and
Road Trip (aka Someone Who’s a Linguist or Can Read Facial Expressions of Cartoon Dogs)
Road Trip has week-ago easing-out-of-lockdown Mary and Kate dreaming of the open road. (Now we're back in lockdown and we don't want to talk about it.)
Instead, focus on the music that gets you through extreme boredom (Paul Simon) and existential threats (Ennio Morricone). And Kate has a hot tip for finding good tunes on the road. (It involves Turkish restaurants in Port Macquarie.)
Plus, rankin
Octopus (aka Finding Nemo/ Six-Year-Olds Who Don't Watch Octonauts)
We all know an octopus saved 2020 for plenty of folks, but is slightly awkward Chloe's Dad the hero we need in 2021?
Kate and Mary definitely appreciate his commitment to Chopin and Wikipedia, and how he relieves the pressure of meeting Bandit Heeler standards.
But why is it some of us are so naturally silly, and some can't get past the first ooh-bool-oop? Maybe the animal world has the answers.
Gotta Be Done presents Goodnight, World! Elmo's Choo Choo
In this special episode of Gotta Be Done, we're are getting excited (and sleepy!) about another podcast, Goodnight, World!
Goodnight, World! is developed by a team of early childhood and meditation experts at Headspace Studios and Sesame Street, to help kids get their minds and bodies ready for sleep.
And previewing the episode Elmo's Choo Choo takes Mary and Kate on a Morningtown Ride through sl
BONUS EP (Joff Bush II: A Choir of Joffs)
It's the second half of Gotta Be Done's epic chat with Bluey composer Joff Bush, and Joff's talking us through the instrument parade in his studio, the importance of auto-tune, and why a shop assistant refused to sell him his perfect piano.
Plus we nerd out over what makes "the Bluey sound" (three ukuleles, a mandolin, an accordion over strings, a choir of Joffs and "sparkliness"!), get hints abo
BONUS EP (aka Bluey maestro Joff Bush!)
It's taken two years of obsessively discussing his incredible Bluey scores, and finally Bluey composer Joff Bush joins Mary and Kate in the Gotta Be Done wagon!
Joff's finally found some time after creating the score to Bluey's Big Play (touring now!) and recording this year's chart-topping Bluey "The Album"!
Yep, busy times are over and Brisbane's Beethoven is just calmly working on multiple ep
